By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 19:41:23 | Updated at 2025-01-08 16:39:53
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Silicon Valley's Indian dream: The fight over US's most controversial visa, the H1B
Forbes India ^ | January 7, 2025 | Deedy Dos
Posted on 01/07/2025 11:32:20 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
A visa programme intended to attract top talent to the United States has become a lightning rod for controversy and an unexpected battleground in America's culture wars, with racial tensions against Indians at its core. The H1B work visa debate has drawn in figures like Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Bernie Sanders, capturing the attention of over 200 million people online and affecting 1.7 billion people across the US and India.
The controversy ignited when Sriram Krishnan's nomination as Trump's senior White House policy advisor on AI sparked outrage among the far-Right Republican faction. An old tweet about removing “country caps” and snippets from a podcast I did with Krishnan were misinterpreted as advocating for unlimited Indian immigration, while the elevation of Indian-Americans like Vivek Ramaswamy and Kash Patel to key government positions led some to question Trump's allegiance to the white Right.
The H1B programme, restructured in 1990, allows employers to sponsor foreign workers for “specialty occupations” through an annual lottery system allocating 85,000 spots (65,000 general + 20,000 for advanced degrees). The process costs employers $12,000-15,000 per application, with about 14-17 percent success rate given the 470,000 applications in 2024. The visa is valid for three years, extensible to six years, during which most pursue green cards through EB-2 or EB-3 categories. Indians dominate the programme, receiving about 60 percent of new H1Bs and 80 percent of renewals. Due to the country cap limiting green cards to 7 percent per nation, over 1 million Indians and their families are stuck in a 130-150 year backlog, forcing them to continuously extend their H1Bs. The tech industry absorbs roughly 70 percent of H1B workers, with 50-70 percent of Silicon Valley being foreign-born.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: colonization; exploitation; h1b; hindusupremacists
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The money quote: The tech industry absorbs roughly 70 percent of H1B workers, with 50-70 percent of Silicon Valley being foreign-born.
I would definitely call that the intentional displacement of the American workforce and the colonization of America. There is no way that Americans, who invented modern computing and software from nothing, are not more than capable of moving it forward without losing their own country to India and China.
To: wildcard_redneck
When I was a consultant, there were tons of Indians. The bulk of a lot of projects were done over in India in big large shops of 50 people in one room just coding away. Very specialized and robotic.
All those cheap wages forced the American salaries down the toilet.
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
“When I was a consultant, there were tons of Indians”
Consulting companies like workers who are willing to relocate to a new city when the next project starts.
3 posted on 01/07/2025 11:39:16 AM PST by JSM_Liberty
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I have seen whole floors of office buildings entirely composed of cube farms infested with hundreds of Indians. We are being colonized and dispossessed in our own country by hostile foreign nations from cultures entirely foreign to the West.
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